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by nupark2 15y ago
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one that can't stand Pivotal Tracker and agile project management "stories". Pivotal Tracker de-emphasizes the things I think are most important: * A clear, long-form description of the problem or requ
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I came here to say the same thing, and you'd already said it. I too love problems like this. A properly designed system like this one will account for every possible oddball situation you can come up with -- and if it can't support an esp
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I'm not mixing them up. $20k over 10 months would barely cover the development and support costs.
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Our average individual software engineer salary is around $10k/month, not factoring in insurance, payroll taxes, office space expenses, etc.
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Keep in mind -- $20k over 10 months is a pretty low return on the investment involved in an application. Perhaps the revenue will trend upwards ... but if we put our team on an application like this and only saw $20k in revenue in 10 month
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Nah. Those are the reasons that an organization would like to list for using Java. But "kls" nailed it above. It's mainly inertia and labor availability at this point. ... except those are the reasons our organization uses Java. Unfortu
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Most of these answers don't seem to be written by anyone actually involved in "enterprise" development. Here are our simple reasons: * The JVM is fast. * The JVM can take proper advantage of multiple cores directly (no GIL). * The JVM is ef
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Your first point is not correct. Crawlers can crawl JavaScript only websites using the Ajax crawling API: http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/specification.h... . This sounds like a huge imposition to implement -- so much so th
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Good for them. 17 engineers, 3 support reps and 2 founders, organic viral growth based strictly on product merits - my kind of startup. Agreed. It's refreshing to see a startup that is actually in business to sell a product, rather than
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Read the elisp example after "In contrast, here's what my code tends to look like today:" The elisp example is impossible to skim. No comments, no breaking up of independent operation blocks. I'd say this is terribly commented code. I'd b
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by nupark2 15y ago
As a programmer-turned-CEO, I firmly subscribe to the Mythical Man Month's suggestion that your top engineers should be paid the same or more than your managers. Otherwise (as MMM notes), the only career advancement available to your engine
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by nupark2 15y ago
I just ran: sudo port install duplicity sudo port install rdiff-backup Worked flawlessly, too. MacPorts isn't crap just because it isn't -- for whatever reason -- what you want.
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MacPorts and Fink try to create their own little microcosm of a Linux system complete with all libraries and utilities. That's more like a philosophical (and failure prone) difference that both Fink and MacPorts intentionally abandoned th
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Miles ahead how? It's the same thing, but written in Ruby instead of Perl (Fink) or Tcl (MacPorts).
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Additional credit goes to the BSD contributions to OpenJDK that the Mac port is based on.
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I'm talking about simple profitability, not whether they've been able (or needed) to raise 20+ M in less than 2 years. I've yet to see it demonstrated that they actually have a business model to sustain their 50+ employees (especially given
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I agree that swearing is an incredibly strong tool in human communication. However, I do not agree that it belongs anywhere near technical discussions in the field of software engineering. The best technical content is dispassionate . Ap
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I've been in the Mac (and now iOS) and UNIX development communities for decades, and I've never come across this sort of "rockstar" immaturity. I have, however, come across this in other fields. I assume this is likely due to how small the
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[Edit] Wow. OK, would a downvoter do me the favor of explaining why they find my position so repugnant, rather than just hitting the down arrow (as convenient as that may be?). Maybe I'll learn something. You may not see the potential and
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Interesting -- it looks like they've only raised $20k in seed funding (compared to Parse's initial 1.5M): http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cloudmine CloudMine doesn't seem to have native mobile SDKs -- but that's actually the smallest pi
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That's interesting -- I'm surprised that Yelp would encourage this. The result seems to be reviews that value the restaurant relative to the effect that visiting and reviewing the restaurant has on the writer's ego. This seems to result in
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Parse sounds like it will be another Urban Airship, not Heroku, unless: - They enormously extend their offering to support development of arbitrary server-side code. - They figure out how to do this in a way that doesn't introduce inescapab
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Unfortunately, the majority of the reasons you listed all boil down to the same one: narcissism. This winds up being why I find Yelp reviews to be useless; the poster is trying to tell me about themselves, rather than actually tell me somet
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I would assume that Apple doesn't support QR codes because most consumers don't particularly have a use for them. I see QR codes everywhere in NYC, but actually getting one onto my phone involves stopping, taking my phone out, spending 10
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I don't really understand why one would accept the trade-offs of "NoSQL" if you aren't interested in "magic scaling sauce" (and clustered redundancy). What's the advantage here? Less rigorous schema, moving data modeling and constraints int
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Urban Airship has raised $21.6M in less than 2 years, and I can't help but wonder when (and if) they're actually going to start making money. Providing a RESTful front-end on Apple's push notification API is a pretty small thing. Apple solv
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by nupark2 15y ago
Git is so much better that it isn't even funny. To this day, I've yet to hear an argument for git's superiority that wasn't predicated on: - The assumption that hiding your work in a local branch is somehow a general feature instead of be
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As a follow-up -- are there any of the authors here? The implementation looks pretty good, but some questions. It looks like you might be using -[NSRunLoop run] to spin a background runloop? That will return immediately if no sources are sc
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I haven't reviewed the implementation, but the API alone appears to be a significant improvement over the previously available options. However, the use of non-prefixed category methods (monkey-patching) is an inappropriate design choice, g
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We did look at NSManagedObjectContext... but NSManagedObjectContext doesn't support polymorphism. Yes, it does. For a few reasons: 1) It is passed around as an instance , not a global variable , and as such, each instance can be individ

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